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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu-devel] KLettres
From:       Josef Spillner <josef () ggzgamingzone ! org>
Date:       2003-05-09 7:34:22
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Hello,

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 23:46, Mahfouf Anne-Marie wrote:
> 1) I don't have any real servers available. Is it possible to store the
> data in ftp.kde.org? How should I proceed or who should I ask for more
> details?

More and more KDE applications depend on internet access for extended 
functionality. It would be useful to introduce a meta-server concept into 
KDE, which means that a list of servers where to find resources on is stored 
in a configuration file, which is updated (kept in sync) whenever a resource 
is updated (or manually via KControl).

The advantage would be that if a server (like ftp.kde.org) is down, or 
operation discontinues after a KDE release, the user would not notice it.

About a year ago a project was started to allow such downloads for all KDE 
applications in a generalized format:
http://mindx.dyndns.org/kde/kdeshare/

However development on it stopped (mostly my fault). The implementation which 
comes close to it is knewstuff in KOrganizer:
http://korganizer.kde.org/features/newstuff.html

> 2) I am not really sure how to use KIO::NetAccess so I will need help here
> as well. Once the files are uploaded somewhere I'll post more details about
> what I intend and cannot do.

If possible, KIO::NetAccess should not be used (use KIO::*Job instead), but if 
it's only for downloading new language packs (which doesn't happen too 
often), it should be ok.

Josef

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